6.3 Morphemic Structures

English Notes

BSL Video

Morphemic Structures

Signs can have one morpheme (so are "monomorphemic") or have more than one morpheme (so are "dimorphemic" or "polymorphemic"). Grammatically, English is basically a monomorphemic language and BSL is essentially a polymorphemic language. However, in building its vocabulary, English will often combine two morphemes to make compounds.